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"The Man With Two Arms"
By Billy Lombardo
Overlook, 336 pages, $24.95
The man of the title, really a young man from Chicagoland, has two golden arms. His name is Denny Granville and his baseball-crazed father Henry raises him from infancy to play ball -...

Have you read all the National Book Award-winning novels above? If, like me, you haven't -- and it might take some time to get through them all -- the National Book Foundation has been posting helpful mini-reviews and essays on......

The latest film from Ethan and Joel Coen has the unmemorable title 'A Serious Man,' but thatâ??s about the only unmemorable thing about it. Like so much of their work, it straddles comedy and sheer grimness; while the tone is substantially lighter than...

Los Angeles Times file photo [Update: This photo stumped the brain trust! And perhaps with good reason. It was apparently never published in The Times and is from a somewhat obscure movie called âThe Fixer,â which is not on Netflix......

The day the Orioles arrived in Baltimore, trolleys clanged down cobbled streets. Kids rushed to see Pinocchio at the Hippodrome. Banana boats dumped their bushels onto weathered wharves where the Inner Harbor now stands.
On April 15, 1954, Baltimore...